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Exhibitionistic

Definition: Exhibitionistic

Exhibitionistic

Adjective

1. Compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by boasting or exaggerated behavior.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exhibitionistic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Exhibitionistic

Synonym: exhibitionist(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Exhibitionistic

English words defined with "exhibitionistic": conspicuousobvious. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Exhibitionistic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sexual deviations in the criminal law: homosexual, exhibitionistic, and pedophilic offences in Canada (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Exhibitionistic

"Exhibitionistic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exhibitionistic" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Exhibitionistic

Language Translations for "exhibitionistic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

裸露癖. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ראות י (flamboyant, flashy, ostentatious, showy, spectacular). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exhibitionisticay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Exhibitionistic

Derivations

Words beginning with "exhibitionistic": exhibitionistically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Exhibitionistic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-i-i-i-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-x"

-2 letters: exhibitionist.

-4 letters: bioethicist, exhibitions.

-5 letters: exhibition, ionicities, tonicities, toxicities.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-i-i-i-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-x"
 

+4 letters: exhibitionistically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Exhibitionistic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 68 69 62 69 74 69 6F 6E 69 73 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    ....    ..    -...    ..    -    ..    ---    -.    ..    ...    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01101000 01101001 01100010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#104 &#105 &#98 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0068 0069 0062 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

399074756875867581807585867569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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